Speaker: Dr. Paulo Lotufo, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Clinical and Epidemiologic Research at the University of São Paulo and a Lown Scholar at HSPH

The Boston Consortium for Arab Region Studies (BCARS) and American University of Beirut (AUB)present a roundtable discussion with

Dr. Sawsan Abdulrahim (AUB), Dr. Denis J. Sullivan (Northeastern Univ), Dr. Rim Saab (AUB), and Alice Verticelli (BCARS, AUB)

Register here.

Dr. Sawsan Abdulrahim is an associate professor and chair in...

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... Read more about Davis Center / SAI: The Price of Aid: The Economic Cold War in India

Noriko Murai, Associate Professor, Sophia University and Reischauer Institute Visiting Scholar

Details: Periodization is Like Luggage': Japanese Art History in Transcultural Perspective in the Early Twentieth Century

Sponsored by the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University

Historian’s Seminar of the Davis Center

Kelly O'Neill, Associate Professor, Department of History, Harvard University

in conversation with ALEXANDRA VACROUX

For more info see: http://www.harvard.com/event/serhii_plokhy4/

 

Harvard Book Store welcomes Eastern Europe historian and Harvard professor SERHII PLOKHY for a discussion of his latest book, Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe. He will be joined in conversation by ALEXANDRA VACROUX, the Executive Director of the Davis Center for Russian and...

Read more about Harvard Book Store: Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe w/ Serhii Plokhy

Free and Open to the Public. 

For more info see: http://www.harvard.com/event/hanna_holborn_gray/

 

Harvard Book Store welcomes HANNA HOLBORN GRAY—the first woman president of a major American University—for a discussion of her debut memoir, An Academic Life. She will be joined in conversation by historian, author, and Harvard professor JANE KAMENSKY.

About An...

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Free and Open to the Public. 

For more info see: http://www.harvard.com/event/eileen_mcnamara/

 

Harvard Book Store welcomes Brandeis professor and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist EILEEN MCNAMARA for a discussion of her latest book, Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World.

About Eunice

While Joe Kennedy was grooming his sons for the White House...

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Harvard Book Store and Mass Humanities welcome award-winning journalist JOSEPH ROSENBLOOM for a discussion of his debut book, Redemption: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Last 31 Hours.

For more info: http://www.harvard.com/event/joseph_rosenbloom

About Redemption

At 10:33 a.m. on April 3, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., landed in Memphis on a flight from Atlanta. A march...

Read more about Harvard Book Store: Book Signing- Redemption: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Last 31 Hours w/ Joseph Rosenbloom

Free and Open to the Public. 

For more info: http://www.harvard.com/event/sigrid_schmalzer_daniel_s._chard_and_alyssa_botelho/

Harvard Book Store welcomes UMass Amherst history professor SIGRID SCHMALZER, UMass Amherst history lecturer DANIEL S. CHARD, and Harvard MD/Ph.D. candidate ALYSSA BOTELHO for a discussion of their co-edited book, ...

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in conversation with MEGHNA CHAKRABARTI

Tickets on sale now - http://www.harvard.com/event/ronan_farrow/

 

Please note the updated venue:

This event will now take place at Memorial Church, 1 Harvard Yard.

Harvard Book Store and WBUR welcome investigative journalist and former State Department official RONAN FARROW for a discussion of his new book War on Peace:...

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Surrounded by our Bonsai & Penjing collection, enjoy cocktails and hors d’oeuvres as you view Professor Yin Kaipu’s (Chengdu Institute of Biology) photographs which document a century of environmental change. Each of his images will be paired with a sister image taken in the same location by Arboretum explorer Ernest Henry Wilson.

Then screen highlights from CCTV-9’s documentary “Chinese Wilson.” Professor Yin and Dr. Michael Dosmann, Arboretum Keeper of the Living Collections, will introduce the film in which they both star, linking China and the Arboretum’s past with...

Read more about Fairbank Center: The Arnold Arboretum and China: A Century-Old Partnership

Speaker: Amelia Ying Qin,  An Wang Post Doctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

This study takes two different approaches—close and distant readings—to the hidden patterns in two anecdote collections. The Songchuang zalu 松牕雜錄 (Miscellaneous Notes under the Pine Window) is a small Tang 唐 (618-907) collection of sixteen anecdotes that claims its accounts are both “particularly unusual” 特異 and “definitely true” 必實. Close reading reveals it to be a text containing hidden structures with an emphasis on “the unusual” as...

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12:45-1 p.m.   Welcoming remarks

First Panel

Moderator:     Wai-yee Li, Harvard University

1-1:30p.m.      Zhou Yiqun, Stanford University: “Hermits and Their Wives in Early Chinese Texts”

1:30-2p.m.      Hu Ying, University of California Irvine: “Strange Friends: Reconceptualizing Gender and Community”

2-2:30p.m.      Ellen Widmer...

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The 2018 Hilda B. Silverman Memorial Lecture Series presents

Brian Klug
Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy, St. Benet's Hall, University of Oxford

On December 6 2017, the U.S. acknowledged Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. "This is," said Donald Trump, "nothing more, or less, than a recognition of reality." It was, actually, both less and more than that: less, because in reality the city's political status is contested; more, because Jerusalem in the Jewish imagination transcends reality. It is Zion, the city that the...

Read more about CMES: "If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem": The Use and Abuse of Jewish Memory